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Phalaropus lobatus

(Phalarope ? bec ?troit)

Overview

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in Afrikaans:

Rooihalsfraiingpoot

Common Names in Dutch:

Grauwe Franjepoot, Rosse franjepoot

Common Names in English:

bank bird, gale bird, hyperborean phalarope, mackerel-goose, Northern Phalarope, red-necked phalarope, Rednecked Phalarope, sea-goose, sea-snipe, web-footed peep, whale-bird, white bank-bird

Common Names in French:

Phalarope ? bec ?troit, Phalarope , phalarope à bec étroit, phalarope à bec étroit

Common Names in German:

Odinshühnchen

Common Names in Hebrew:

שחיינית צרת-מקור

Common Names in Italian:

Falaropo beccosottile

Common Names in Japanese:

アカエリヒレアシシギ

Common Names in Russian:

Круглоносый плавунчик, Плавунчик круглоносый

Common Names in Spanish:

Falaropo cuello rojo, Falaropo picofino

Common Names in Swedish:

Smalnäbbad simsnäppa

Description

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Physical Description

Adult : Bill: black Shape : fine Body: Back: streaked.Adult Female Breeding Season : Head : blackish Face : Eye Stripe: white Lores : white Bill: black Shape: fine Neck: blackish with pale rusty patch extending around face Throat : white Body: Back: streaked Mantle: rich buff stripes.Adult Female Summer: Head: Crown: black Face: black Neck: rufous-red Body: Breast: gray sides Flanks: gray streaking Sides: gray streaking.Adult Male Breeding Season: Head: blackish Face: Eye Stripe: white Bill: black Shape: fine Neck: blackish with rufous patch Throat: white Body: Back: streaked Mantle: rich buff stripes.Adult Male Summer: Head: Crown: streaked gray Face: Forehead: streaked gray Bill: black Curvature: straight Shape: needle-shaped Neck: Throat: white Body: Back: dark gray with buff striping and feather edging Upperparts: white Legs : Foot Color: blue-gray Leg Color: blue-gray Leg Length: short.Adult Winter: Head: white Crown: blackish Bill: black Shape: fine Neck: white Hindneck: blackish Body: Back: streaked Mantle: dark gray with 2 whitish stripes down each side Rump : sides white, center blackish Underparts: white Legs: Leg Color: dark bluish-gray Wings : Remiges : blackish.Immature: Head: white Crown: blackish Bill: black Shape: fine Neck: white Hindneck: blackish Body: Back: streaked Mantle: dark gray with 2 whitish stripes down each side Rump: sides white, center blackish Underparts: white Legs: Leg Color: dark bluish-gray Wings: Remiges: blackish Tertials: buff-edged.

Size/Age/Growth

About 7.75 to 8 inches long, with a wingspan of 14 to 15 inches. Adults weigh about 1.2 ounces .

Habitat

Ecology: Behaviour This species is fully migratory and travels over land on both broad and narrow fronts1 using favoured lakes as staging points on route2. It breeds from late-May to August2 in solitary pairs, occasionally forming loose colonies where suitable habitat is restricted1. The species leaves the breeding grounds between late-June and early-September2, migrating in gregarious flocks and wintering at sea in flocks of 20-1001. Habitat Breeding The species breeds in the Arctic on coastal and inland tundra , forest tundra and alpine tundra near lakes, pools1, ponds , lagoons , streams or other permanent water-bodies3 with marshy margins overgrown with grass , sedge or moss1, 3 in freshwater marshes and bogs2. It may also frequent coastal moorland, flood-plains and islets in large rivers , and in Iceland it commonly nests on sparsely vegetated lava deserts1. Non-breeding On passage the species frequents inland saline and hypersaline lakes1 as well as reservoirs , sewage-ponds and coastal marshes2. During the winter it is largely pelagic however, foraging at sea in upwelling zones and marine areas with a high abundance of plankton1. Diet Breeding In its breeding range its diet consists of insects (especially adult and larval Diptera, beetles, caddisflies, ants and Hemiptera) and other small invertebrates (e.g. snails, crustaceans and annelid worms)1, larval amphibians (tadpoles )3 and seeds1. Non-breeding On passage the species may take larval brine-flies (Ephydra spp. ) from saline lakes, but when feeding pelagically during the winter it feeds on zooplankton (e.g. euphausiids and calanoid copepods ) and other floating planktonic particles1. Breeding site The nest is a shallow scrape on bare ground or amongst sparse vegetation1 in sedge thickets or damp, grassy or hummocky areas close to water4. Management information In the UK management regimes to benefit the species include increasing the area of open water in mires by digging small pools , controlling water-levels and providing tussocky vegetation suitable for nesting (through grazing by ponies and cattle)5.

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Biology

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Diet

Primarily: Insects

Lesser Quantities of: Aquatic Invertebrates Seeds

Reproduction

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Phalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

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Red Phalarope

Members of the genus Phalaropus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. fulicaria (Flat-Billed Phalarope) · P. fulicarius (Flat-Billed Phalarope) · P. lobatus (Hyperborean Phalarope) · P. tricolor (Wilson's Phalarope)

More Info

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. BirdLife International 2009. Phalaropus lobatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 03 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 2012-07-28